Anti-flu vaccine activist and revolutionary pimp anti-hero Black Dynamite is sidelined with a nasty virus for the majority of the “Panic on the Players Ball or That’s Influenza, Sucka!”, generating copious amount of upchuck for the middling episode’s few laughs.

Meanwhile on the Player’s Ball Express, things get even more gross. The annual gathering for America’s pimps has moved to a custom, double-wide train that runs on two sets of tracks. After the train party gets under way, we learn about the motives of the almost-totally robotic villian and conductor Leroy Van Nuys. Leroy was repeatedly left for dead by the pimps of Player’s Ball, so he’s custom-built his own death train stocked with robot killers, who begin horrifically murdering everyone on board.

Dynamite uses the power of Sun Tzu’s book The Art of Flu to hijack a police helicoptor, and get aboard the train, kicking off some impeccable sword fighting and the all-too-quick conclusion.

While it’s always great to hear Snoop’s buttery voiceover work, and Ars Nova’s animation remains phenomenal in “… That’s Influenza, Sucka!” – we love the blaxploitation parody franchise best when it’s rewriting history – as in the OJ Simpson or the Richard Pryor-themed episodes. The horror-filled player’s ball worked well enough, but we’re looking forward to next week’s appearances by Richard Nixon and fat D.E.A. agent by the name of Elvis Presley.

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